Incredible Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is the new single-core performance champ, beating Intel's Core i9-14900KS — results of 3,800+ posted
Apple's M4 processors have become convincing leaders in the Geekbench single-core leaderboard. Several scores of roughly 3,800 points have appeared in the Geekbench online database over recent hours. This is significant as single-core benchmark scores of this magnitude put clear blue water between the M4 and Intel’s flagship Core i9-14900KS. A little Geekbench database checking shows that, in single-threaded tests, Apple's M4 outpaces Intel's power-hungry desktop champ by about 16%.
Since Apple's big launch event on Tuesday, we have seen Geekbench entries for iPads packing the new M4 chip turn from a trickle into a deluge. One thing most of the entries have in common is a great single-core CPU benchmark score. Multi-core benchmarks aren't nearly as interesting, with a total of four performance cores and six efficiency cores (10 cores) working together.
In some refreshed iPad Pro designs, the new Apple M4 mixes a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU with a 16-core Neural Engine capable of 38TOPS. Built on a second-generation 3nm process, the SoC is also claimed to offer advances such as dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and AV1 hardware acceleration.
